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| Who created the United States Sanitary Commission, and what was the purpose of the organization? |
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| What organization inspired the creation of the Sanitary commission? |
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| How did "Mother" Bickerdyke play a major role in the Civil War? |
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| What were the similarities between the North and South at the beginning of the Civil War? |
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| Where and when did the Civil War begin? |
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| Why did the war begin there? |
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| Why did Southerners enlist eagerly? |
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| What states left the Union during the first secession between December 1860 and Feb. 1, 1861? |
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| What states were referred to as the border states? |
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| Why was the border states' decision important? |
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| What were the two names for the first battle of the Civil War, which occurred in Virginia in July 1861? |
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| What were the North's advantages in the Civil War? |
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| What were the South's advantages in the Civil war? |
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| What was Lincoln's primary goal early on in the war? |
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| What controversial actions did Lincoln think were justified by military necessity? |
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| What economic development legislation did the Republicans pass during the Civil War? |
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| What Mexican victory, Which occurred on May 5, 1862, is celebrated as the Mexican national holiday: El Cinco de Mayo? |
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| Who kept the Laird ironclads from being delivered to the South? |
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| Why did Britain not intervene in the Civil War to preserve its cotton supply as the south expected? |
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| What were the Confederacy's self-imposed difficulties? |
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| What does the map of the major battles in the East in 1861-1862 show? |
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| What does the map of the major battles in the Interior in 1862-1863 show? |
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| What do the major battles of 1863 show? |
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| How was the North able to eventually gain control of the Mississippi River? |
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| What major events were part of the war in the Trans-Mississippi West? |
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| What attempts at suppressing Native Americans resulted from the battle between the Monitor and the Merrimac? |
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| How did Union officer Benjamin Butler attract slaves to Union lines? |
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| What slaves were actually freed by the Emancipation Proclamation? |
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| What feminist leader advocated the 13th Amendment? |
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| What did the African-American come from who served in the Union Army? |
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| What resulted from blacks serving in the Union Army? |
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| What did black soldiers in the fifty-fourth Massachusetts do when they were denied the same pay as white soldiers? |
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| Why did more Americans die in the Civil War than in the first and second World Wars? |
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| To what did the high number of causalities in the Civil War lead? |
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| What women led the effort to organize nurses and cursing care? |
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| What political developments in the North took place after the war began? |
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| Why did social tensions rise in the North during the Civil War? |
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| What industries expanded during the Civil War? |
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| What developments during the Civil War foretold the postwar world? |
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| What did the New York Draft Riots reflect? |
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| What resulted from the Civil war in the South? |
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| Why did social tensions in the South deteriorate during the Civil War? |
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| What did the Confederacy face as the Civil War progressed? |
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| What did General Meade fail to do at the Battle of Gettysburg? |
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| How did Grant, as general-in-chief, follow a policy of total war? |
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| What was Grant's strategy of engaging the enemy and pressing forward effective? |
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| What did Jefferson Davis insist on at the peace conference at Hampton roads? |
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| What does the map of The Turning Point:1863 show? |
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| What does the map of Sherman's campaign in Georgia in 1864 show was the key to Sherman's success? |
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| What does the map of the final battles in Virgina in 1864-1865 show? |
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